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Grade 1
  Commencement: Enrollment, and selection of supervisor and vice-supervisor. According to the advice of the supervisors, select subjects.

You have compulsory and selected compulsory subjects
HOW ABOUT... Some lectures are compulsory for everyone, and others are elective (that is, you have to do some, but you may choose which ones).

Some subjects are compulsory:
1) Basic Science Fundamentals and Multidisciplinary Seminars are for learning basic science fundamentals.
2) Summer technical seminars are held for a week in summer season at the central research laboratory to learn research techniques.
3) The “selected compulsory” subjects are Social Science of Medical Behaviour, Bioethics and Statistics for Bioscience.

You also have lectures and exercises in individual courses.
Based on those lectures and exercises, you have made a research plan.
 
Scene of entrance ceremony
 
 
Grade 2
  You have practice for your research. Supervisor, vice-supervisor and professors in related laboratories help your research.
It is important to read references for your research.
If it is needed, you have to apply the approval of ethical Committee, the Animal Research Council and the committees for RI research or gene manipulations.
You prepare to submit the research progress report at 3rd grade.
Researching scene
 
 
Grade 3
  The supervisors check your research progress and you have to submit the research progress report in June.
You have to present your research progress at the poster meeting for PhD students held in July. You can get advice and comments from professors.
According to their advice, you modify your research plan.
At end of the grade 3, you will start to make a research paper.
Scene of poster meeting
 
 
Grade 4
  You have to submit your paper to an international journal. Please note that it takes several months to review your paper.

Submission of your thesis with the acceptant letter of your research paper.(December)
Notification of intent to submit (January, at a professors’ meeting)
Presentation of your research (10 reviewers) and the final doctoral experience questionnaire (three professors) (the end of January)
Confirmation of your thesis (February, at professor meeting)
Ceremony of your thesis (around March 10)
 
Scene of presentation of research   Scene of graduation ceremony
 
 
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